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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Flower Beds in the Dresden Gardens [recto]; Nude (Portrait of Dodo) [verso]

1909

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Flower Beds in the Dresden Gardens [recto]; Nude (Portrait of Dodo) [verso]

1909

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, 30 1/2 x 37 1/4 in. (77.5 x 94.6 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Curt Valentin Gallery, Inc.
Object Number 1953.33
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1953; Curt Valentin Gallery; Buchholz Gallery, New York (Curt Valentin); Kirchner Estate (after artist's death in 1938); Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "4000 Years of Modern Art," Nov. 27, 1956-Jan. 13, 1957, no. 124.

Gertrude Rosenthal, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists," Oct. 22-Dec. 8, 1968, no. 115.
Museo d'Arte Moderna, Lugano, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Retrospective," Mar. 12-July 2, 2000.

Das Städel, Stäelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, "Naked! Female Visions, Painters' Intentions, The Rise of Modernism," September 25, 2003-February 1, 2004.

Neue Gallery, "The Birth of Expressionism: Brucke in Dresden and Berlin," February 26-June 29, 2009.

Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Expressions of Nature," March 10-September 22, 2019.

Jill Lloyd and Janis Staggs, The Neue Galerie, New York, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner," October 3-January 13, 2020.
Baltimore Museum of Art News, June-Summer 1953, ill. cover.
BMA News, June 1957, ill. p. 3.
Donald E. Gordon, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner," Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968, no. 100, p. 280, ill. verso p. 422.
Lloyd, Jill and Janis Staggs, eds., "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner," New York: Neue Galerie: Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2019.
Rosenthal, Gertrude, ed. From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, pp. 138, ill.

Artist

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

1879–1937

German, 1880-1938
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